Thursday, June 04, 2009

JA from MNPP here. Earlier this week came the news that my beloved Sigourney Weaver would probably be joining the cast of Paul, the alien-comedy directed by Greg Mottola (director of Superbad and Adventureland) and written by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (aka the stars of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) as well as co-starring the two of them plus Jason Bateman and Kristen Wiig and Seth Rogen and Jane Lynch, and I wondered if there'd ever been a cooler thing ever. I still haven't found one.

But today comes word that besides officially joining that movie, Sigourney has also added another comedy to her upcoming roster (via):

"... [Sigourney] will then star in “You Again” with Kristen Bell for director Andy Fickman. Bell will play a young woman who returns home for her brother’s wedding and is horrified to find he’s marrying her high school nemesis. Weaver will play the bride’s filthy-rich aunt."

Okay, Sigourney and my beloved Veronica Mars together? My body has turned into goo, y'all. And from the director of She's The Man, no less! Okay, I kid on that last snark - Fickman brought a gloriously deranged performance out of Bell once before in the filmed version of Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical and perhaps he'll channel that side again.

But we're talking Siggy here, and I think we need to revel a lil' in her continued devotion to and excellence in comedies. The topic came up in the comments to my post on Paul and so it's something I've had on my mind this week. What's your favorite Sigourney performance in a comedy? We have bunches to choose from.

And what about Dana Barrett in Ghostbusters or Chaffee the obscenely fertile surrogate coach in Baby Mama? I'd be hard-pressed to choose a favorite, but it'd probably be between Working Girl and Galaxy Quest, leaning towards the latter. Something about the way she delivers everything with exasperated amazement. "Ducts? Why is it always ducts?" And of course the immortal, "Whoever wrote this episode should DIE!" Love.

Definitely Heartbreakers for favourite. It's Sigourney just the way I like her sexy and deathly...and I was so busy enjoying her that I did not have to think about that insufferable Jennifer Love Hewitt and her chicken face.

loved her too in the tv set some choice one liners there 6th on my supp actress list although i could dump susan sarandon for her 7 minutes for in the valley of elah!!!

i love gwen demarco too it really is her devotion to it no gg nod either in a weak year 99,now siggie just o a great drama role to win that oscar please the one you should've got in 97 when you gave the best supporting actress turn that year sorry ms moore.

nat would you do a siggie month when its her b'day in october 60 same as meryl pretty please!!!

i think my favorite part is when they reach the big steel clomps blocking them from reaching the Omega 13. She looks at it with pure terror and says "well, fuck that!!" (even though it's dubbed as "well, screw that!"

then after she manages to get through and screams "whoever wrote this episode should DIE!".

ah, i may need to watch that over again. :)

I didn't really enjoy HEARTBREAKERS at all, but i do remember her small role as the abnormally fertile older woman in BABY MAMA. A bright spot in an ok movie.

Omg. Heartbreakers is such an intensely guilty pleasure of mine. I watch it every time I see it on HBO or Showtime. It's terrible, but Sigourney and JLove have good chemistry, and I've always loved Ray Liotta for some reason. Sometimes I like to pretend that La Weaver goes around in her day-to-day life, grifting just for fun, and it makes me smile.

I think Weaver will have her shot at the Oscar with Night Train, a gritty drama which starts shooting next september. It's a powerfule role, I'm sure she'll be up against non-winners Naomi Watts for Fair Game and Julianne Moore for The Special Relationship.